T Gauge Freight Cars - 1:450 Scale Model Railroad - Tゲージ
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- T Gauge Freight Cars Review
Time to take a closer look at some of the Freight Cars offered by TGauge.com, specifically the Tanker Wagon and the 100 Ton 4 Bay Hopper.
100 Ton 4 Bay Hopper: This is an Open Hopper car (wagon) and comes in two colors, Black and Red Oxide. Hopper cars are used for transporting cargo such as coal, ore, sand, etc. It looks prototypical, the details are a bit oversized which is common for T Gauge (it is 1:450 scale). The one thing that sticks out though is the grey trucks (boogies) used. I would have preferred to have black versions like you have on the tanker car. You also get a steel weight you can attach to the bottom of the hopper.
Hopper dimensions and weight:
Length: 29mm
Width: 6.8mm
Height: 8.3mm
Weight: 0.97g
Steel weight: 1.57g
Tanker Wagon: This is a very generic-looking DOT-111 tank car with the exception that it looks like it is built on top of a flatcar. What is really cool is that you get some etched details including rails, hand breaks, and ladders. This allows you to replace some parts on the car with more scale appropriate details. The Tanker car comes in 4 colors, black, red, yellow and white.
NOTE! It is very easy to break the ladders, I broke one of mine taking it out of the box.
Tanker dimensions and weight:
Length: 27.5mm
Width: 6.12mm
Height: 10.8mm
Weight: 1.93g
Both these cars are of good build quality, with nice details. They look prototypical or some would say that it is a close representation of the prototypes. For this scale, you will have to make compromises and it is worth repeating that at normal viewing distance it will look even better.
In general, tank cars and hoppers looks the same all over the world and these are very generic looking which makes them perfect for any layout with freight.
I am not paid by or have any affiliation with TGauge.com
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Links:
TGauge.com 100 Ton 4 Bay Hopper: www.tgauge.com/product/502/4-...
TGauge.com Tanker Wagon: www.tgauge.com/product/376/ta...
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Credits:
Oil refinery backdrop: Credit: Ted
www.flickr.com/photos/trhamit... /
Hopper car: Railpictures.net - Credit: James Bellmont
www.railpictures.net/photo/59...
Tank car: Wikipedia - Credit: Harvey Henkelmann,
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_ca...
Tank car break wheel image: www.vtg.com/us/
www.vtg.com/us/railcar-leasin...
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Why are T gauge trains so cool? I love T gauge.
Thanks for the video. It's nice to see that I'm not the only person with a wobbly hopper car.
I will see if it can be fixed. In my case looks like some kind of miss-alignment of the wheels.
I noticed that you printed the locomotive body; I can see the layer lines. It looks good.
Actually not. The loco (GP8) is from TGauge.com. Take a look at this video th-cam.com/video/0spakl8b7Tk/w-d-xo.html
@@skylinejunction I'm glad I didn't buy one then.
@@michaelbujaki2462 To be fair, you don't really see that unless you have a lot of magnification like when I am filming it.
I was thinking they all looked 3D printed. On a crappy extrusion printer. In fact, I wouldn't doubt that's how the manufacturer makes them. A hi-res resin printer though could give far better results. T-scale is so shockingly small. It makes me think of the sketch from Saturday Night Live where Fred Armisen is playing Steve Jobs and he's introducing a new I-POD and then he says, "but wait... we've already done better" and produces another one that's smaller. Then he does the same thing, and he does it again and again and again until there is just a dot on his fingertip. I can't wait to see how small the next scale is.
Magnificent. Just gr8. Thx 4 sharing, mate. Greetings from Mexico....
My pleasure!
Beautiful rolling stock, good video presentation!
Thank you very much!
Great video.Good update too.
Thanks, appreciate it.
You could paint the trucks cars and engine to add detail.
I'm holding out until there's a T-gauge steam locomotive!
We are all waiting for that one :-)
I have 14 of them.
Great color selection and I like how you are running the engine backwards!
There was no thought to that one. Running long hood fw is the most common as you point out. It's just how I at ran it that day.
@@skylinejunction 😆I feel it lol
Just FYI, that tank car appears to be based on a 40 foot prototype. They were common through the 1950s or 1960s, and they did indeed have a separate frame from the tank.
The later, longer DOT-111 tank cars like the one your photograph used the tank itself as a structural member, and did away with a separate frame. But the 40 foot prototypes did not have hand rails on the ends; just a brake wheel.
Great info. I believe it's a bit of a compromise just based on the scale.
nice
Thanks
The X Files Black Train! The problem with the hopper is that the wheels in the rear truck aren't centered and are causing the car to wobble that 1/2mm.
1ST T GAUGE VIDEO I EVER WATCHED AND I’M THE 69TH LIKE LETS FUCKIN GOOOOOOO
Why put springs on the hitches ? It lengthens the distance between two wagons.
It's just to keep the hitches a bit more stable/fixed to the chassis. You can run without it.
its awesome what resin 3d printing enables us to do
This is actually not a 3D resin print.
@@skylinejunction oh my bad I thought it was. It looks much like small resin 3d prints
These things are so tiny so you will get some "artifacts" even with normal plastic injection, and who knows this may have been molded from a 3D resin print. @@michal_king478
The loco is so ugly! xD
But the cars are cute.even though the tank is a bit warped ...
At their debut ALL scales were crudely fashioned, of dubious value and, yet, expensive. Later, improvements increased the scale fidelity and rolling characteristics while lowering the price. Each time there were skeptics. At 1:450 please consider me a skeptic.
If you are looking for "high level" scale fidelity/accuracy it is hard to produce that on T Gauge. From a normal viewing distance without filming with macro etc its sufficient from my perspective. It all depends on what you are looking for and what you like.
@skylinejunction Despite the larger sizes, HO has the same fidelity as 0, 1 and 2 gauges. It's there if you can see it!
Photograph style Detailing is NOT railroading : That's building Doll Houses & little Play Villages .
RUNNING Trains and staring at THEM is what it's all about ...
Rivet Counters are ruining the Hobby !
What is with the "muzak"?
Are those 3D printed? It looks like they have build lines.
I think they are molded, but due to the extreme small scale and how much the video "zooms" in it is more prevalent.
T gauge is cool, but way too tiny for my hands and eyes, if I drop a car or loco it would disappear in the carpet.
Could happen :-)